Day 1

MAEE 111
The Child and the Learning Process
 The child and the learning process
Important Concepts;
• The child/human – growth and development
• Learning – theories
 Human Development

• Involves the studies of the human condition

• Ongoing process that continues all throughout life
• Follows a predictable pattern but, varies in rate
 Human development
• Is a multi-dimensional concept
• According to UN in HDI, there are three key dimensions in HD
namely;
1. A long and healthy life
2. Being knowledgeable
3. Have a decent standard of living
 Learning concept
• Learning is the relatively permanent change in a person’s knowledge or
behavior due to experience. This definition has three components: 1) the
duration of the change is long-term rather than short-term; 2) the locus of
the change is the content and structure of knowledge in memory or the
behavior of the learner; 3) the cause of the change is the learner’s
experience in the environment rather than fatigue, motivation, drugs,
physical condition or physiologic intervention.”
–From Learning in Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Richard E.
Mayer 
 Important concepts
• Change
• Behavior
• knowledge
• Experience
• environment
 Learning Theories
Provide the basis for learning
Learning Theory describes how students absorb, process, and retain
knowledge during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental
influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how
understanding, or a world view, is acquired or changed and knowledge
and skills retained (Wikipedia)
 Activity

• Why is understanding of human

development important in the classroom?
 Topics to be discussed

1. Stages of development – Ms. I. Arciaga

2. Psychoanalytic Theory - Sigmund Freud – Ms. M. A. Basut

3. Cognitive theory – Jean Piaget – Ms. M. Belarmino

4. Social Learning Theory – Albert Bandura – Mr. W. Briones

5. Psycho-social theory – Erik Erikson – Ms. A. Caspillo

 Topics to be discussed

6. Moral Theory – Lawrence Kohlberg – Ms. M. J. Espanol

7. Observation and Imitation (Jerome Bruner) - Ms. Q. Espanola
8. Zone of Proximal Development – Lev Vygotsky
- Ms. J. A Eupena
9. Behaviorist Theory – B. F. Skinner – Ms. D. Gudelosao
Ivan Pavlov – Ms. V. Nesperos
10. Laws of Learning -(E. L. Thorndike) - M. J. Quino

9.
 Activity #1

Research on the Principles of development. Then,

write an essay on the importance of knowing these to
teaching. Cite some of your significant experiences.

Turn in your answer to MT Assignment

 References
• https://www.psychologistworld.com/behavior/erikson
• http://theelearningcoach.com/learning/10-definitions-learning/
• https://infed.org/mobi/learning-theory-models-product-and-process/
• https://courses.lumenlearning.com/educationalpsychology/chapter/major-t
heories-and-models-of-learning/
• http://www.ibe.unesco.org/en/geqaf/annexes/technical-notes/most-influent
ial-theories-learning